Some called it a foregone conclusion; Jae-in Moon, now the 19th President of the Republic of Korea, comfortably celebrated his victory on May 10 after a sweeping 41.1% plurality against 24.0% of Liberty Korea Party candidate Jun-pyo Hong.

A team led by Professor Hyochoong Bang from the Department of Aerospace Engineering successfully launched Little Intelligent Nanosatellite of KAIST (LINK) aboard the Atlas V booster of the NASA CRS- 7 Mission on April 18.

President Moon’s way to the Blue House was a tough one. During the presidential debates, the then-candidate seemed to struggle most with questions demanding his stance on two issues: defense and science and technology. As he is no more a candidate, now seems an opportune time to further scrutinize his policies on those agenda.As a former special forces soldier, President Moon does appear con

One of Jae-in Moon’s first promises to the public as a presidential candidate was to clean out the backlog of corruption and irregularities rooted in the previous administrations of former presidents Geun-hye Park and Myung-bak Lee. Both of the previous two administrations had been marked with public protests and downward spirals in approval ratings, with the most recent debacle ending in th

A team of researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology’s (POSTECH) Department of Mechanical Engineering has discovered a method to apply a superhydrophobic layer to materials in a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way. Superhydrophobic surfaces have a wide array of applications in various industries. Existing methods of applying a superhydrophobic layer to materials

KAIST Institute for NanoCentury (KINC) hosted its seventh annual KINC Fusion Research Award, dedicated to commemorating and encouraging professors and graduate students in collaborative research, on March 22 at the KI Building (E4).

The School of Humanities and Social Science is hosting the Spring 2017 KAIST Humanities and Social Sciences Colloquium (HSSC). The event consists of six lectures spanning between March and June, each given by a KAIST professor adept in their respective field of sciences or humanities.

Throughout the months of March and April, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS) hosted its 18th KAIST Humanities Lectures for Citizens, “China, Dreaming of its Draconian Rise?” from March 8 to April 12.

Professor Jae Kyoung Kim of the Department of Mathematical Sciences has won one of the Young Investigator Grants of the 2017 Human Frontier Science Program (HSFP). Professor Kim won the HSFP grant, sometimes referred to as “Noble Prize Grants”, alongside his international collaborators Professor Robbert Havekes from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, Professor Sara Aton fr

While it is a normal convention to displace objects through mechanical systems, such as wheels or legs, a team led by Professor Daniel Saakes of the Department of Industrial Design has designed a strategy that harnesses vibrations to effectively allow an object to move by itself. They named their strategy “Ratchair”, due to the pieces of furniture moving analogously to a rotating ratch

Along with other researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Professor Young Seok Ju of the Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering published an article in the scientific journal Nature regarding findings about cell mutations in the earliest stages of human life. Titled “Somatic Mutations Reveal Asymmetric Cellular Dynamics in the Early Human Embryo”, the article was

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab recently came out with a mobile app that uses the smartphone camera to detect crucial signs of heart arrhythmia by capturing certain facial signs of the person that the application is being used on. The application uses Cardiio, a program from a previous app developed by the group. Cardiio, which shares its name with the Media Lab spinout t

Recently, spinach has shown the potential to be used differently to potentially save countless lives of people with critical health conditions. The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been carrying out extensive research in the field of regenerative science, aiming to devise a method to create organs and tissues that can substitute human organs. Recently, a biomedical team at the WPI success

On March 16, the Times Higher Education’s (THE) 2017 Asia University rankings were released. KAIST has achieved eighth out of other prestigious universities in Asia, which is the highest position for universities in Korea for this year.After separating out from the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings in 2010, the THE rankings have been publishing annual ranking reports of research-intensive u

On March 26, during the undergraduate student representative meeting, KAIST’s Undergraduate Student Council Auditing Committee submitted a job inspection report on the Undergraduate Student Dormitory Council (USDC). The report revealed a series of actions by the USDC that shocked the KAIST community.Through the report, the auditing committee drew five main malfeasances by the USDC: misuse of

A collaboration effort between Professor Hee-Sung Park from the Department of Chemistry and Professor Chan Bae Park from Ajou University produced a new technology that allows for the expansion of the genetic code of house mice (Mus musculus) through the integration of unnatural amino acids at a target protein using the regulation of acetylation. The technique will contribute to the recognition and

Thomas Jefferson once famously — and bitterly — declared, “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Though stated when the then President of the United States (POTUS) had grown fatigued by the incessant news of his personal pursuits and rumors during his candidacy, the quote had been resurrected with vigor in response to “The G

A collaborative effort between Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) has led to the discovery of how the human antibody C10 prevents Zika virus infection, further pushing the quest for a cure of the virus that has plagued the world in recent years.The Zika virus first “docks” on the cell; the virus then initiates its “fusion” process

Professor Kwangjo Kim of the School of Computing has been selected recently as a 2017 Fellow for the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). A non-profit organization that is dedicated to cryptology and its applications, the IACR has annually selected up to six fellows from its members who either made great contributions to cryptologic research or contributed and promoted academ